Report: State tobacco prevention funding lacking
Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 11:50
in Health & Medicine
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) -- States have spent only about 3 percent of the billions they've received in tobacco taxes and legal settlements over the last decade to fund tobacco prevention programs, making it harder to reduce the death and disease caused by tobacco use, according to a report released Thursday by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention....